0:08 – Last week, news broke that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone had been hacked in 2018 after he received a WhatsApp message from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We speak with the two U.N. investigators who reviewed the forensic analysis: U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye, author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet, and U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard, who has been investigating the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
0:34 – Kazu Haga, founder and coordinator of East Point Peace Academy, discusses his approach to nonviolent resistance and social change, as well as the path that led him to this work. He is the author of the recently published book, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.
1:08 – An outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that started in the city of Wuhan, China is raising alarm worldwide. There are now 2,744 confirmed cases globally, five of which are in the United States. Art Reingold, Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, joins us to explain what this coronavirus is – and how worried the U.S. public should be.
1:34 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich), host of Letters and Politics, gives an update on impeachment. KPFA is broadcasting impeachment proceedings every day live from 10 a.m. until the evening.